[Q-e-developers] Using QE as a benchmark code for machine procurement

[Lorenzo Paulatto]

In data 19 gennaio 2011 alle ore 21:19:38, Zhengji Zhao <zzhao at lbl.gov> ha  
scritto:
> 1) Do you know any other super computing centers (and other parties)
> that use QE as a benchmark code for their HPC computer procurement? If
> yes, we are interested in getting their benchmark suite (makefiles, test
> cases, reference runs, etc.) for reference. Any information towards this
> would be highly appreciated.

AFAIK, it is used by the PRACE: have a look at their page  
<http://www.prace-project.eu/news/prace-benchmark-suite-finalised>. I  
guess you can try to browse the site to see if they have published the  
benchmarks, and/or contact the referents listed in the page.

best regards


>
> 2) If there is no established benchmark suite for the HPC computer
> procurement, we would like to work out such a benchmark suite. Could you
> give us some guidance when preparing such a benchmark suite? We want to
> come up  with 3 test cases (input files) that can use a small (eg., 32
> cores), medium(eg., 256 cores), and large (eg., ~1024 cores and more if
> possible) number of processor cores. Any help towards this, such as,
> suitable input files or info about it,  comments/info about the parallel
> scaling of the codes, ..., would be highly appreciated as well.
>
> Regards,
>
> Zhengji Zhao
> NERSC User Services
> Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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